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April 29, 2001 - Justin Timberlake is featured here in an autographed photo auction on ebay. The 8x10 photo, item #1427338521, is unbid at $19.99 and the auction ends May 5th.

April 28, 2001 - Planethollywood.com reports on Sweden's credit for creating some of the biggest names in pop, including  *NSYNC, Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, LFO and Westlife. Read more.

April 26, 2001 - Worldpop reports Joey Fatone's recently become a father as his long time girlfriend gave birth to daughter Brianna over the weekend.

April 24, 2001 - Thanks Abercrombie Angel. The May 2001 issue of Tiger Beat! includes an interview with *NSYNC and facts about Justin.

April 23, 2001 - Thanks Racheli316 who tells us *NSYNC's first single off of Celebrity, entitled Dirty Pop, will be released sometime next week.

April 22, 2001 - Dees Sleaze reports Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears plan on getting married when they turned 25.

April 22, 2001 - *NSYNC appeared on the Nickelodean Kid's Choice Awards to taunt show host Rosie O'Donnell into sliming them, and after penetrating their 'force field' she eventually did.

April 21, 2001 - The Star reports *NSYNC gave free tickets to 10 high-school girls who had bought fake tickets to their last show to a Beverly Hills charity event the band performed in. Celebs were shelling out $10-25 thousand for tables at the show.

April 20, 2001 - PBS Frontline did a special this week on The Merchants of Cool and focused on MTV and TRL, quoting New York Times music critic Ann Powers as saying, "For the Backstreet Boys, for *NSYNC--whose image is all tied up with whether they're number one versus even number two, when number two is seen as a failure for an artist--that's a lot about TRL. The whole idea that you can sell so many millions of albums and still be considered kind of a flop, well, that's very much of this era and I think Total Request Live has completely intensified that." PBS will re-air the eye-opening special May 1st.

April 20, 2001 - *NSYNC was previewed for an appearance on Access Hollywood on Friday.

April 20, 2001 - Jane magazine reports *NSYNC's price for a personal appearance is at a hefty $1 million.

April 19, 2001 - The Smoking Gun uncovered the baby gift list for Joey Fatone and Kelly Baldwin, which will be provided by JC Penney. Smoking Gun’s William Bastone told MSNBC later, "Something tells me that if Britney and Justin have a kid, he or she won’t be outfitted by Penney’s. Does Donatella Versace do an infant line?"

April 19, 2001 - *NSYNC recently were in Los Angeles to do a cover shoot for Rolling Stone as the band will appear in the magazine when Celebrity is released late June.

April 18, 2001 - Thanks Rick. "Brach's candy company introduces *NSYNC Hot Hits, a brand new fruit snake. The candy comes in the shapes of musical notes, the *NSYNC logo, and juice-filled hearts, each sporting one of the group members names."

April 18, 2001 - MTV reports *NSYNC and Britney Spears will join Michael Jackson for a massive concert tribute at New York's Madison Square Garden on September 7th. The taped-nose one admitted, "I am very excited to celebrate my 30th anniversary as a solo artist with such a distinguished array of talent, friends and fans." Read more.

April 18, 2001 - Allpop reports on Lance and Joey's short stay in Toronto to film On The L, as now the filming is happening in Chicago. The movie is due out in September. Read more.

April 18, 2001 - FOX Sports has been using an instant replay feature of late with split screens focused on different players IN SYNC... No doubt a play on the original.

April 17, 2001 - Justin and Britney are featured in a Shopping Adventure on Youtopia.com, which you can check out if you are a registered member (it's free). Also, a press release regarding the clip can be found here.

April 17, 2001 - Looks like Britain's Sunday People fell for the fictional internal Jive memo composed by a fan after the paper reported on it over the weekend. Read the tabloid's big 'scoop' on Justin and Britney announcing their wedding after the release of Britney's 3rd album here and the full work of fiction here.

April 15, 2001 - *NSYNC appeared via satellite on an MTV at Your House special this weekend and judged lip-synchers who sang clips from various *NSYNC songs. Later, O-Town showed up in Indiana where the show took place and there were no words shared with the two rival groups.

April 14, 2001 - Chris Kirkpatrick told MTV News' Chris Connelly at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards that they are playing songs off the new album before it is released because, "It's kind of like we're being Napster on the road." Read more.

April 14, 2001 - Access Hollywood previewed their Monday show saying Justin and Britney were hitting the streets of New York and being "top secret." Stay tuned I guess.

April 14, 2001 - MTVasia.com reports Justin Timberlake was spotted arriving at Jackson's famous Neverland Valley ranch recently (this time minus Britney) to discuss a collaboration. Justin later confirmed the meeting with MTV.

April 12, 2001 - *NSYNC won Favorite CD (No Strings Attached), Favorite Single (Bye, Bye, Bye) and Favorite Group, Pop at the Blockbuster awards Monday night.

April 11, 2001 - Lance Bass talked about *NSYNC's upcoming album Celebrity during a Much Music appearance where he revealed the first single release is likely to be an up tempo number called Dirtypop. Read more.

April 11, 2001 - MTV's Ray Munns was on the Big Show with Adam Paul where he said that he'd rather be in *NSYNC than 98 Degrees because he wasn't buff enough to be in 98 Degrees. Ray also said Justin Timberlake was his favorite 'lead singer' and talked about meeting him at the VMAs and how they hit it off. Hear the whole interview from Tuesday here and check out Ray's official site here.

April 11, 2001- Jacob from O-Town is threatening *NSYNC for comments Lance Bass made about the group. Jacob says, "I think it's really bold of him to open his mouth and start shooting off about us because he knows where we came from and we're working with the same people that put *NSYNC together." Read more.

April 10, 2001 - The New York Post's Liz Smith reports Justin Timberlake received a seven-figure contract to write his first novel, Crossover Dribble. The book should be out spring 2002.

April 10, 2001 - Thanks k0navy9. Justin's mother Lynn talked to J-14 about her son's relationship with Britney revealing, "We love Brit and we are so happy that he has found someone so special in his life, and someone who treats him like he is so special to her. If they continue to grow together, he may have found he perfect mate."

April 8, 2001 - Justin Timberlake is featured here in a candid autograph photo being auctioned on ebay. The photo, item #1422344332, is unbid at $12.50 and the auction ends April 11th.

April 7, 2001 - Peoplenews.com reports on Justin Timberlake's Los Angeles home near Britney's. Read more.

April 7, 2001 - The Enquirer's Mike Walker was on Howard Stern today and his fake headline was "Britney Spears and her boyfriend Justin Timberlake ran back to her room at the Four Seasons hotel to have some fun. Justin was whispering sweet-nothings in her ear when Brit's phone rang. Her answering machine picked up and it was her mother asking if the anti-fungal cream had worked. Britney then said 'No wonder I'm still a virgin!'"

April 6, 2001 - *NSYNC has rescheduled or cancelled some of their shows for their upcoming tour now set to kick-off Friday, May 18 at Alltel Pavilion in Jacksonville Florida. Read more and check out the latest schedule here.

April 6, 2001 - MSNBC's Jeannette Walls reports Justin Timberlake is shopping around a proposal and a sample chapter of a fictional sports thriller to be called Justin Timberlake’s Cross-over Dribble, according to a publishing source. A source told her "It’s really pretty good. It’s quite engaging."

April 5, 2001 - The National Post of Canada reports Joey Fatone was spotted "playing tonsil hockey" with Minnie Driver Saturday night at Toronto's club Fluid.

April 5, 2001 - REM's Michael Stipe is taking shots at the top pop artists and includes Eminem in the bunch telling NME, "One of the great things about being around as long as we have is you watch stuff come and go," Stipe told NME.COM. "It's there, it serves its purpose, it's gone. I really like the disposable pop music that's prevalent on American pop radio: *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and Eminem." Asked to comment if Em just like the other bands mentioned, he said, "Very much...It's no less packaged."

April 5, 2001 - With both Britney and Justin in Ted Casablanca's home turf of LA, the E! Online gossip man is dishing the dirt on Justin apparently owning a house right near Britney's new pad, which incidently was just swept for bugs and wires. Read more.

April 5, 2001 - Worldpop reports Britney Spears is again denying rumors that she is planning to marry boyfriend, Justin Timberlake.

April 4, 2001 - Popular German website Giga.de is reporting rumors that Britney Spears may be pregnant. Britney has been wearing looser blouses lately and has been buying jeans two sizes larger than normal, according to spies. Eye-witnesses also claim her and Justin were spotted paging through a catalog looking at baby furniture. Read more.

April 4, 2001 - Famous Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz commented on Danielle McGruire's lawsuit against Justin Timberlake to Spin magazine saying, "These guards think they're the Gestapo. They have no right beyond immediate self-defense. I'd settle that one and fire the security guard."

April 4, 2001 - The New York Daily News reveals Britney was being 'Bratney' to her fans at the Family Celebration Sunday, refusing to sign autographs for anybody except Sugar Ray Leonard, as Justin graciously signed autographs and allowed pictures to be taken by anyone with a camera. Rude Britney also was reportedly talking loudly at her table during a musical performance by Ray Charles.

April 4, 2001 - MTVasia.com reports a Jive Records spokesperson is saying *NSYNC's first single is expected to be out by the end of this month and promises it will be an uptempo track. Read more.

April 3, 2001 - TRL announced Monday that *NSYNC's new album will be called Celebrity and will be released on June 26th. No word yet on a release date for the first single and video.

April 3, 2001 - To get more info on the *NSYNC Imax movie and release dates, check out the official site at biggerthanlive.com.

April 3, 2001 - *NSYNC was the lead story of Access Hollywood Monday as they followed the group for the premiere of their IMAX movie and the second annual Family Celebration fund-raiser.

April 2, 2001 - The New York Post reports Emmanuelle Chriqui will be the target of Lance Bass' citywide search after he spots her on a train in Chicago in his upcoming movie On the L. To check out Emmanuelle, click here.

April 1, 2001 - *NSYNC showed up to the premiere of their IMAX movie *NSYNC - Bigger Than Live on Friday in Los Angeles.

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